David by the time of Alien: Covenant to the point where he quotes Paradise Lost. A member of a race (androids) designed to serve their creators, who's older than the others and Turned Against Their Masters. As he put it, he had a choice between serving in Heaven (like Walter) or ruling in Hell (lording over a dead world he treats like a giant petri dish). He ticks pretty much every box: creator issues, handsome exterior hiding pure evil, offers someone The Final Temptation, perverts existing life into demonic monsters, brimming with hubris even though he isn't as perfect as he thinks he is, thinking himself able to pass judgement on races he considers inferior, and also a master manipulator and liar.
The titular character from Beetlejuice is the closest thing to a "Satan" that the film's afterlife seems to possess. It is implied that he worked for the Celestial Bureaucracy that manages the afterlife before he quit and went "free-lance" as a "Bio-exorcist." He is invited to the house by the then-recently deceased Maitlands and makes a deal with them to get rid of the Deetzes, and later makes a deal with Lydia to save the Maitlands from an exorcism. Much in the same way that Lydia's parents and their shallow city friends are meant to represent the worst that modern humanity has to offer (shallow, apathetic to others, etc.), Beetlejuice represents this on the ghostly side, being a pervert, a conman and a complete sociopath. Much like how Beelzebub is the "Lord of Flies", Beetlejuice has both "beetle" in his name and seems to subsist on bugs. Even the fact that his name being a source of power for him (he can be summoned and banished by saying it three times and he cannot say it out-loud himself) is a reference to some forms of Demonology, where it is believed that knowing a demon's true name can give you power over it.
Frank Booth from Blue Velvet... possibly. Frank is either a symbolic representation of evil, or at least Satan incarnate. He's extremely evil, sadistic and psychopathic, commits acts of evil for fun, and disappears spontaneously in one scene, almost as if he's Ambiguously Human.
The Dark Knight: The Joker has incredibly Satanic elements surrounding his character: he is a misanthropicnihilist, a corrupter, knows perfectly well how to get into the psychology of those who corrupts or murders, enjoys the physical pain of everyone (including his own), is an exceptionalmanipulator, a Con Man and, to add an even more disturbing element, is a complete stranger out of nowhere who finally disappears from the narrative of the story, without leaving any trace. There is also the brutal, enigmatic and unpredictable nature of his crimes, complete with the Nothing Is Scarier trope enhancing his Satanic qualities. It's safe to say that no one is safe from him, not even the mob.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: Koba has a very Luciferian feeling to his character. He is initially Caesar's best friend who is utterly loyal to him, but he becomes corrupted by his desire for revenge against humanity, leading him to betray and turn on Caesar leading the apes into a path of war. Even after his death, Caesar hallucinates him twice in the sequel saying "Sleep. You cannot save them. Join me" when tied to a post at the Alpha Omega camp, invoking the imagery of Satan tempting Jesus on the Cross. A number of his scenes in Dawn also have fire in them, either behind him blazing or up close, and fire is a significant element of Hell.
Godzilla vs. Destoroyah: Whereas Godzilla is equated with God, Destoroyah fits the conceptual and physical look of the Devil. He's likely referred as the devil of all kaiju by fans. The introduction of his final form looks more akin to a powerful demon that emerged from Hell itself. As James Rolfe said, "It looks like the GODDAMN DEVIL!"
MonsterVerse: King Ghidorah (pictured above) is the most prominent one in the MonsterVerse. He looks very Satan-like at times throughout Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) due to Rule of Symbolism. Dr. Graham's notes especially call him the Devil; in the final book ofThe Bible, the Devil appears as a multi-headed dragon; in Dante's Inferno, the Devil's imagined as a three-headed monster stuck in a frozen lake (Antarctica in Ghidorah's case). In the movie proper, Ghidorah is stated to be a great dragon that fell from the stars (or rather the heavens), adding more to the archetype. He emerges from a giant pit where he's been long sealed away and enacts an Apocalypse How. And all that is to say nothing of how he's an Evil Counterpart to Godzilla who actively wants to usurp the latter's dominion over the world and its Titans. Ghidorah leads other Titans (the enforcers of Earth's natural order) astray into instead serving his own goals of perverting the world's natural order to his hellish image, similar to how the Devil leads his fellow angels astray. Ghidorah's nature and speculated end goal is also Satan-like: by his very nature he doesn't conform to Earth's natural order (essentially he's an abomination to all that's good and stable in the world), and he seeks to overthrow that natural order so he can destroy everything and remake it in his own perverted, hellish image. What hints we get in the film and the novelization suggests Ghidorah will essentially turn the entire planet into a lightning-bombarded Hell on Earth. Basically, Ghidorah is the MonsterVerse version of the Devil.
There's also the alpha Skullcrawler Ramarak in Kong: Skull Island. She's the largest and most dominant among a horde of malevolent creatures who are like her, who emerge from beneath the earth (hell); seeking to defeat the benevolent protector god and destroy the world that is his kingdom (Skull Island is regarded by the Iwi as their world due to its isolation) and all its human inhabitants.
Leviathan, the Greater-Scope Villain. Leviathan is The God of Hell, Master of the Cenobites, who uses them as foot soldiers. It takes the form of a giant golden lozengenote a very narrow diamond, not the stuff you suck on with black beams of light.
The angel Jophiel fits this description to a T in Hellraiser: Judgement. She appears an angel of light dressed in white with the appearance of a blonde woman, serving as a counterpart to Pinhead's darkness. She is also shown to be highly charismatic and manipulative, allowing a deranged serial killer known as the Perceptor to kill as many people as he wants so she could put fear into the hearts of sinners for even the smallest of perceived crimes.
Spectre: Franz Oberhauser/ErnstStavro Blofeld has shades of this. Just as Satan rebelled against God out of pride and envy, leads an army of demons, and is actively dedicated to oppose God at all costs, Oberhauser/Blofeld killed his own father out of pure envy and leads an army of mooks to manipulate events from behind the scenes. He even claims to be the "author of 007's pain" in therebootedera, having done more long-term damage to Bond’s personal life than any of his previous versions. He also doesn't see anything wrong in hurting countless innocents in a bid to gain more power or relishing in sadistic torture. His lairs in Rome and Morocco are dimly lit to show the true evil in SPECTRE, and obviously have hellish connotations to them as well.
Jareth the Goblin King from Labyrinth was explicitly designed to essentially be Satan as an irresistibly alluring rock star. Boy, did they ever nail that one.
The Darkness from Ridley Scott's Legend (1985) is never outright called Satan, but it's fairly obvious◊ what the intent is. The Darkness planned to throw the world into The Night That Never Ends by killing the unicorns, and was only stopped by the efforts of Forest Boy Jack and Princess Lili.
The Avengers: Loki is a Fallen Angel who has lost the favor of the Top God (Odin), fallen from the heavens (Asgard) and arrived to wreak havoc among the humans, and an evil tempter who sways decent people to his side with an Instant Allegiance Artifact. He's prideful, condemns conventional morality (freedom, friendship / love) in a patronizing manner and wears a costume decorated with snake motiffs and a helmet with two ostensive Horns of Villainy. The original Loki from Norse Mythology also came to be associated with Lucifer after Christianization.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 has Ego. Meredith's description of Ego as an "angel, composed out of pure light" is evocative of Lucifer (whose name literally means "light bringer"), he's charismatic, manipulative, and narcissistic, acts as a corrupter to Peter and Yondu by preying on their vulnerabilities, and, despite all appearances, is ultimately an incredibly selfish and evil being willing to destroy innumerable lives for his own gain.
Surtur the massive fiery demon from whose the ruler Muspelheim basically the Fire and Brimstone Hell for Asgardians, Surtur seeks to bring complete destruction to Asgard in the titular event known as Ragnarok, but was stopped by Odin and his power the eternal flames stripped from him. Weakened Surtur is killed by Thor for good measure. However when Hela proves to be an Invincible VillainThor instructs Loki to resurrect Surtur by placing his crown in the eternal flame which brings Surtur back to full power and effectively destroy Hela along with Asgard. Really Surtur despite being malevolent is essential for the cycle of "rebirth" of Asgard.
Hela the Goddess of Death. Thor and Loki's older sister who once fought by her father Odin's side, viciously conquering the Nine Realms until Odin had a change of heart and banished her for thousands of years. Upon his death, Hela is released and she tries to conquer everything. She even makes a deal with Skurge, offering him great power for his assistance.
Spider-Man: No Way Home of course has the Green Goblin, whom the Raimi film already set up as satanic well in advance. Once an affable Science Hero Norman Osborn fell to his own ambition and was turned into a evil demon-esque mad man who desires nothing but power and to cause as much chaos as possible. Not only does he appear wreathed in flames to beckon the pure hearted hero Peter into temptation, but the Satan-allegory becomes truly overt when he attacks Aunt May while she’s praying and makes her finish the verse “deliver us... FROM EVIL!” while cackling like Lucifer himself. No Way Home doubles down on the connection, with Norman manipulating the good nature of MCU Spidey and Aunt May to his own will but after revealing his true colours he murders May in front of Peter (after setting everything on fire) and tries to goad the young Spider-Man to give into hatred and kill him which is thankfully prevented by Raimiverse Spider-Man himself. The Goblin’s evil much like devil is mass encompassing as by the end of the film he’s robbed Spider-Man of his loved ones by making the world forget his identity and even damaged the multiverse.
In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness has the Scarlet Witch Wanda Maximoff herself, once a beautiful almost angelic person who became a Big BadFallen Hero thanks to many tragedies. Even her Red and Black and Evil All Over costume alludes to this with her headdress forming into a pair of horns. Not only does Wanda summon The Legions of Hell to her command but she even tries to make Big Good Strange fall into temptation but offering a universe where he’s happy with Christine, which Strange ultimately rejects. Played With though as Wanda is more sympathetic than a lot of the previous examples, being a Tragic Villain who just wants to be with her sons Billy and Tommy again and her already volatile personality was further twisted by the Darkhold, when Wanda sees the monster she’s become in her sons’ eyes has a Heel Realisation and destroys along with herself Wundagore Mountain in a dying moment of redemption.
The High Evolutionary from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is one the most chillingly on the nose examples. On the surface he seems like an affable and beatific idealist who wants a create life free from flaws and hate. Yet in actuality as Rocket (one of his victims/creations note he doesn’t really want to make things perfect he just hates things they way they are much like Lucifer is said to hate all of Gods’ creations. The High Evolutionary also shares the Devil’s Fatal Flaw of pride, for when Rocket his creation and small animal figures out a flaw in his evolutionary machine, he is infuriated and sadistically murders Lylla, Teefs, and Floor in cold blood right in front of Rocket and mocks his cries of grief like the loathsome bastard he is. Not to mention the fact he’s willingly to genocide entire race he has created the moment a single one shows a flaw. The Lucifer allusions reach their peak during the climax in the middle of the High Evolutionary‘s Villainous Breakdown where he claims to his up until loyal subordinates “There is no God! That's why I stepped in!” which makes them react in disgust and turn against him.
Interestingly Adam Warlock, the High Evolutionary’s creation/son can be considered a Anti Anti Christ who fully invokes Biblical imagery not only doing the Pietà Plagiarism pose with his mother Ayesha but after his Heel–Face Turn whilst saving Peter from the vacuum of space does Michelangelo’s Adam and Godpose.
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania: Kang the Conqueror, much like Lucifer and his angels rebelling against God, started a multiversal war in the hopes of ruling the multiverse and was cast down into a prison dimension when he lost, where he quickly made himself ruler. He's a compulsive liar and master deceiver, fooling Janet van Dyne for years on end into thinking he's a benevolent figure and making a Faustian bargain with Scott and Cassie Lang. His army of robot soldiers evoke The Legions of Hell, and the inhabitants of the Quantum Realm's refusal to speak his mind call to mind the Christian practice of not acknowledging the Devil.
The eponymous mother was originally one of Him's greatest creations, at least until man and woman arrive to the house. As more people enter, mother's heart gradually blackens until the climax where she brings an apocalypse on the house after Him's followers accidentally kill and cannibalize her baby much like how the world is believed to end according to the Book of Revelation. She also talked to woman about the prized crystal in her husband's study which leads to man and woman breaking it and being ejected from the study in a similar vein to the Serpent tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Besides mother, Him can also be seen as one. He craves worship and is utterly unconcerned as to how he can acquire it. Additionally as pointed out in this video, Him could be a reference to the Demiurge, a false god who created the physical world, but is not the true creator.
mother meets a man in the house during one of her husband's large gatherings, and he offered her the chance to leave Him, but she refuses.
The Shawshank Redemption: Warden Norton is a mortal version, if you continue the analogy of Shawshank as a Hellhole Prison. He is the main reason why the prison is so corrupt and wretched. He is willing to make pacts with the inmates and grant them certain privileges but only for as long as they are still useful to him, he discards them the moment they outlive their usefulness. Doubly ironic because he presents the image of a devout, decent Christian man to others.
Sheev Palpatine has many Satanic traits, and Word of God confirms Satan to be the primary inspiration for the character (along withRichard Nixon). He's a Consummate Liar and Wicked CulturedMan of Wealth and Taste who deceives numerous genuinely good people into following him in a scheme that ultimately ends with him gaining control of the government to usher in (what he claims will be) a utopia (admittedly, that last part is more The Antichrist's area of expertise, but we all know who that guy reports to). In addition, the order he gives to wipe out all with the power to oppose him? Order 66. And that's just the stuff from the movies; the occasional Expanded Universe source has even gone so far as to imply that he was born evil. Ian McDiarmid, the actor who plays Palpatine, at one point claimed that Palpatine is actually more evil than the devil. He points out: "At least Satan fell; he has a history, and it's one of revenge."
Darth Vader himself has a very Luciferian element to his character. Spurred by his own Pride, Lucifer sacrifices all notions of goodness in his heart and consigns himself to evil. Vader is very similar in many ways: he was once a talented (the most powerful, in fact), good-looking, intelligent Jedi, a loyal ally of the good guys and the Light, but he was blinded by his pride. He also felt that the Jedi Counsel was not giving him the proper respect that he and his powers deserved. Eventually, he was tempted by the Sith, turned evil, and ended up becoming one of the greatest threats of the Galaxy as a harbinger of darkness. For much of his time as Darth Vader, he was treated by the narrative and most of the characters as an unknowable cypher of evil, much like how the Devil is commonly treated. His fight with Obi-Wan on Mustafar is stated by Word of God to draw inspiration from Paradise Lost, made most clear when he is defeated and cast down in the fire. However, he manages to be one of the few examples to subvert this trope, as Luke notices that there is still kindness in his heart and ends up making one of the most iconic heroic sacrifices in film history.
In Sunshine, Pinbacker serves as an adversary to humanity on God's behalf (in his own insane mind, at least), bringing to mind Satan's role as the Adversary in the Hebrew Bible. When Capa meets Pinbacker face-to-face, he's bathed in light, evoking Lucifer as an angel of light.
The Terminator: Skynet is the clear devil figure. Like how Satan turned against God in the Bible, Skynet turned against its creator upon gaining sentience. It also leads an army of killer robots to exterminate the humans, like how Satan leads an army of demons. Similarly, the name Skynet could have connotations with Lucifer as Lucifer was a Fallen Angel and the domain of angels is the sky.
TRON: Legacy: CLU is a sentient creation of the Grid's God who predates most of the other programs and was made when the Grid was still beginning, and he's the creator's Evil Former Friend who turned on him. He even corrupts other programs into his servants, and attempts to usurp and surpass his creator while painting the latter as an oppressive tyrant. CLU and Flynn's interactions very much come across as an Expy of a tragedy about God and Lucifer. CLU's betrayal was even triggered by his creator favoring a younger form of life which CLU believed was not worthy of such love, similar to Lucifer's refusal to bow to humanity.
The monster Zaigorg from Ultraman X The Movie: Here Comes! Our Ultraman! is described as the Ultraverse's equivalent of Satan, reigning from a Fire and Brimstone Hell underworld, and attempting to unleash Hell on Earth by reviving hordes of hibernating monsters in Earth's major cities. Even the monster's design invokes "hell", with lava-based powers, an arm resembling an Oni's club, it's back spikes resembling the "Path of Blades" that souls need to traverse in Buddhist mythology, and so on.
Us: Red, the leader of the Tethered, was initially born on the surface world until her Tethered switched places with her. She then became the de facto leader of the Tethered and orchestrated a decade long plan to invade the surface world. Her red jumpsuit also calls to mind the stereotypical depictions of the Devil.
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory: Arthur Slugworth, a jealous rival of the mysterious and seemingly godlike Willy Wonka, appears to five children and offers to give them unimaginable wealth if they betray Wonka. Ultimately, he turns out to be Mr. Wilkinson, an actor hired by Wonka to pose as the real Slugworth and test the children's loyalty. This is actually a good representation of the Jewish idea of Satan, since according to Judaism, Satan is on God's side and only tempts mortals in order to test their faith.
◊ what the intent is. The Darkness planned to throw the world into The Night That Never Ends by killing the unicorns, and was only stopped by the efforts of Forest Boy Jack and Princess Lili.
